The brief asked for a container village at the Makerfair. With a shipping container you don’t pay for the box, you pay for moving it: transport, crane, placement, return. That bill swallows the budget before anything is designed. So we spent it on development instead.
The order went to a joinery factory that builds export crates. Same move as the air ducts: the factory keeps doing exactly what it already does, only the destination changes. A crate follows a fixed logic: eight identical load bearing panels, a floor, a roof. Packaging sold as packaging, but built as a building system.
Second hand crates hit the container problem again. Assembled, you ship air. Flat panels travel cheap, so the house arrives as a stack and becomes a volume on site.
For windows: everyone here is selling the boat to buy a camper. Boat windows are everywhere, insulated, built for water and wind, in shapes no builders merchant stocks.
The site already had a wooden deck. No foundation needed.
